Hearsay

While former Gov. William F. Weld has taken a post in the same office as his old legal counsel Robert J. Cordy at McDermott Will & Emery, rumors are floating that the current counsel to the governor, Paul W. Johnson, ...

Whatever else one might say about the Internet, it certainly has made it easier to keep an eye on what people say about us overseas. And in the case of nanny, err, au pair, Louise Woodward, foreigners were saying a ...

Want to get some traffic on your Web site? Try finding a way to get CNN to put your Internet address on screen. Lawyers Weekly certainly knows the feeling. In the hours after Judge Hiller B. Zobel told the press ...

It just won’t be the same. That’s the feeling of many longtime employees at the venerable Massachusetts Appeals Court when happy-as-a-clam clerk Nancy Turck Foley leaves for warmer pastures. Foley is moving to Florida with her husband, who’s starting a ...

Members of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers engaged in a little family feud when one of its members voiced his dissatisfaction over this year’s recipient of the coveted Haskell A. Freedman Award — given annually ...

Could that have been Worcester County Bar Association President Francis J. Russell hawking t-shirts at the Rolling Stones concert earlier this month? Is attorney Russell not getting any satisfaction from the law? Did he have that 19th nervous breakdown? Has ...

Where can you find Boston’s “most powerful and influential” Internet gurus? Not along techie-laden Route 128, but right in the big city at one of Boston’s good old law firms. According to the happening Improper Bostonian’s top 40 list of ...

“An attorney is free, like all Americans, to hold political sentiments. In a courtroom setting, however, lawyers have no absolute right to wear such feelings on their sleeves (or lapels, for that matter).” — 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

“The judiciary is under assault in this country. Someone must stop it. And we’re the worst people to do it.” – Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein describing the dilemma that judges face in being often criticized, yet restricted from responding, ...